China Institute to Move to Lower Manhattan

Upper East Side Mansion That Was Its Base for 70 Years on Market for $32 Million

By

Josh Barbanel

March 4, 2014 9:09 p.m. ET

For 70 years, the China Institute in America has served up Far East culture from its quaint, wood-paneled mansion on the Upper East Side. Now, it has put its home on the market for $32 million and is moving downtown.

The institute's chairman, Chien Chung Pei, an architect and son of I.M. Pei, said it would soon move into larger renovated space...